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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

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The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

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Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

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Ignorance: the root of all evil.

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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

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And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

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No soul willfully does wrong.

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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